Re: coefficient of constant term (Q:)
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- Subject: [mg7055] Re: [mg7002] coefficient of constant term (Q:)
- From: Robert Pratt <rpratt at math.unc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 22:04:47 -0400 (EDT)
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Why not substitute zero for all variables? Rob Pratt Department of Mathematics The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB# 3250, 331 Phillips Hall Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3250 rpratt at math.unc.edu http://www.math.unc.edu/Grads/rpratt/ On Thu, 1 May 1997, m.r. wrote: > greetings: > > please offer suggestions on obtaining the constant term of an expression > > containing a list of variables. > > using CoefficientList i was able to build such a function, though > > the returned list has a "large" length. > > since the list of variables grows as n^3, > > the execution time became the issue even for "small" n. > > sincerely, > > m. r. > > email: schaferk at tennessee.nrlssc.navy.mil > >